Jumbo Crossword - 134

Tuesday, June 05, 2018

ACROSS:
1 Ultimate letter comes to an end, a match for ancient sacred writings (4-6)
6 Vengefully torn part of a middle-east desert (5)
10 Chance to fall out (6)
16 Endless American tramps in the orchestra (4)
18 Essayist in hotel, I assume (4)
19 Right, wanting a lot first off for piping (5)
21 Water supply discontinued in comfortable circumstances (4,3)
24 Broken oval jugs of foreign derivation (8)
26 It's laid across the line of flight (5-3)
27 Triumphant cry from whaler cut short (3)
28 Old student left a room in a harem (3)
30 American-born Japanese helps to show this American is Eisenhower (5)
32 Vicar's odd recorder (3)
33 Answer to "Is Missouri in Canada?" that makes sense (4)
35 Boasts of rat’s tail and strange domestic animals (8)
37 Little lady with a long scarf is a bit of a heart-throb (8)
38 Online production has an effect on the climate (2,4)
39 Heart of cross is always a fibre (5)
41 Gelderland city is half Edenic ? (3)
42 Free from international organization's hold (7)
45 They're wild in central Africa (5)
46 Wonder if it's in the chest of drawers (3)
48 Pollard possesses a hint of one who’s been cleared out (7)
50 A lot many Romans many can view initially ? (3)
52 Famous treaty of 1713? The curt solution is here (7)
53 Unusually docile snakes may be (6)
56 Shy about defeat whilst suffering inner pain (7)
57 Left uprising with listener and daughter in show of sadness (4,4)
59 Husband withdraws from broken affair for a political body (3)
62 Which of the Ionian Islands is a little surrealistic or futuristic? (5)
64 Numbers negatives (3)
65 Does it lower the tone? (4,5)
67 There's something rank in an uncouth sort of way for such a one (3)
69 Crowds lifeboats (5)
70 Drink from fractured pipes (5)
71 Got on with some wage demands (4)
72 Rise high over lake (5)
74 Stream of twenty new cars (4)
75 Neckties ? (6)
76 Beast surrounds New York in stone (4)
78 Faceless performer of skill (2,3)
79 Inherent in black and red (6)
82 Sound from a pen starting to ooze ink (4)
84 Start to make a plait (6)
86 One leaves from there and comes back not to take action (6)
88 He can help sort out an idea (4)
89 Crimean commander's coat (6)
90 Prevalent yet uncertain ? (2,3)
92 Seeming surprised to lose the sanctimonious crooks (4)
94 Luggage as well going round the island (6)
95 Turns up with a mother cat (4)
96 Making a loop needs great height (5)
97 Bone black, said the poet ! (4)
99 Brown colour of timber with top sawn off? (5)
101 Maybe the French God did help her out ! (5)
103 Do wrong at home on Sunday (3)
104 Agree with the children in a minor matter (4-5)
107 Dilemma coming from a shot of heroin? Repair it! (3)
108 Up to some stunt, I'll be bound (5)
110 He's vain, in a matter of opinion (3)
111 Subversive article about framing a rich eccentric (8)
113 Attempt to pocket ball, but lose one's nerve? (2,2,3)
116 Inferior bangle ? (6)
118 Hospital doctors bury bridge partners (7)
121 One traditionally in black, now even in green with frequency (3)
123 Carroll, Director General getting into another snood! (7)
125 Ulterior motives started last month (3)
126 Loud for a musical note (5)
127 Norman was once at odds with Harold (7)
129 Bottomless container is still a container (3)
131 Scotsman has gold in Chinese territory (5)
133 Can be eaten in the morning boiled; I blend it with milk (6)
135 Hot spot for breakfast when possibly rather fragile (8)
138 Card game on which infants progress (3-5)
141 Refusal to approve niche (4)
142 She is in such a great fury (3)
144 Which over-50 confederate names a sulphide in oil of garlic? (5)
146 Without a back yard it's uninteresting (3)
148 Put to work in an upper-class household (3)
149 Composer entertaining fashionable members of a priestly caste (8)
151 Identical personality, a Frenchman in the southeast (4-4)
155 The first lady King Edward turned out! (7)
156 A main diversion from the innermost membranes (5)
157 Lady said to have a complaint (4)
158 You? In the penthouse? (4)
159 Little information given to the German male or female (6)
160 Poem attributed to husband (3,2)
161 Washed-up Maui master: what's lacking in mastery is made up in passion (10)

DOWN:
2 The viewer's situation (7)
3 G.I. truant (4)
4 Japanese Commander had no love in the morning to get stuck into things (2,3)
5 Mount a bus partially damaged ! (3)
6 A new beginning (3)
7 Hair-styler used by society girl (3)
8 Dash from France (4)
9 Very bright Roman figures (5)
11 How to score extremely high (9)
12 Italian writer gives staff edge before six (5,4)
13 It's always used in poetry (3)
14 Bottle storage system is very worrying (5-7)
15 Gives water to, as they arrange to get the doctor in (8)
17 Monstrous woman to get on without promotion (6)
20 Our learned friend can bring the fish back (3)
21 Go down for a new foundation (4)
22 Cleaner from US city answerable to British sovereign (9)
23 In favour of a warning shout, we hear, of course (3)
25 Impertinence of an airline getting safety first (4)
26 Shutting the fish out, leaving the water (3)
29 Stupid man, to demand from church (5)
31 Volatile girl is back as a man ! (5)
34 What could be finer than a riddle ? (5)
35 Put out, perhaps by a revolutionary acknowledgement of a hit (6)
36 Spinner swallowing one pint of best (3-3)
40 Solitary advance, we hear (4)
43 Nodding head (6)
44 The city which has articulate guides (5)
47 Achievement, or the next in line (9)
49 His work can be a matter of life and death (7)
51 Driving out by force with no dirty ditties (9)
53 Dope on music offered in concise form (11)
54 Also a country with a bit of modification ! (4)
55 Little Dorothy has a point ! (3)
56 One may take a rest with this shooting stick (3)
58 Attendance book for the postal sorter (6)
60 Protective garments for a ragged clergyman ? (6)
61 Coming from Atlantic, perhaps, one must pay for it when one gets it (3)
63 Benjamin Roosevelt (8)
65 A turn for charts to publicise luncheon meat (4)
66 Feel the picture well yield a clue (6-5)
68 Granted a certain amount of price deduction (5)
71 Bail Anna out of a European republic (8)
73 Protracted desire (4)
77 She overrated Socrates (9)
80 King's rival nearly became Avenger (4)
81 She lasted incompetently, but is lasting for evermore (9)
83 A doctor getting one on one's feet (5)
85 In no hurry to describe the music (6)
87 Ill-fated doughboy in wagon that's turned over (6)
91 Religious person in a political grabber's disguise ? (4)
93 Kidnaps sailors carrying a pipe (7)
97 Despot has little Dorothy encompassing such extra-sensory perception (3)
98 Accepted as a group member (3,2,3,4)
100 Filth from a thousand headless deer (4)
102 Hot chemical all round the leather (6)
105 Little fellow in a brief tantrum (3)
106 Not much space for a spring (3)
107 She may drop one to get a man (5)
109 A complete change of views to reverse a fighting match ? (4,5)
111 It ensures a good reception for some speakers (6)
112 Singer distracted painter (6)
114 Perhaps a German ? No, he's Irish (9)
115 Remote possibility of an acquittal (3-6)
117 Asian tree was originally called (and I do mean originally) Margosa! (4)
119 At last transgression gets one all in the red (5)
120 Puppet insulted woman (8)
122 Try to, catch a dwarf (5)
124 Some well-to-do urban homes smell ! (5)
128 Avoid this, perhaps. Ah, but there may be water there (6)
130 It's hard by the backstreet to shut them up (7)
132 Does a human's taste like veal to a cannibal (4)
134 Made to last (4)
136 Golfer feels to be missing iron (3)
137 Disinfectant some rely solely upon (5)
139 Poetry with little hesitation in old Greek music hall (5)
140 Whiskey plant (3)
143 Chair for the immobile limb (3)
145 She's among those who have fallen asleep (4)
147 Beelzebub took stock (4)
150 Kind of bomb, that is to go off in a hurry ! (3)
152 Non-clerical way to set down (3)
153 Enclosure in the request you send off (3)
154 Moment before a giant bird appears (3)

Aries (Mar 21 - Apr 20)Old, fond memories will define your mood today, which will show up in the manner in which you deal with work, where your mellow side will be visible to others. You are also circumspect with money and tend towards saving it. Ganesha says people dealing in cash and money-lenders will benefit.